IT’S TIME FOR the all-conquering Cork ladies football team to put their title on the line with Dublin providing the opposition.
We’re live from Croke Park following all the action in the 2014 All-Ireland ladies senior football final.
As always, we’d love to hear your comments. Send them to fintan@thescore.ie, tweet them @TheScoreGAA, find us on Facebook, or leave a comment below.
Result: Cork 2-13 Dublin 2-12
**************
Welcome along to Croke Park and the countdown is on to the 2014 All-Ireland ladies senior football final. Cork against Dublin, throw in here at 4pm.
Here’s how Cork will start:
1. Martina O’Brien (Clonakilty)
2. Roisin Phelan (Aghada)
3. Angela Walsh (Inch Rovers)
4. Brid Stack (St Mary’s)
5. Vera Foley (St Val’s)
6. Deirdre O’Reilly (St Mary’s)
7. Geraldine O’Flynn (St Mary’s)
8. Rena Buckley (Donoughmore)
9. Briege Corkery (captain) (St Val’s)
10. Annie Walsh (Inch Rovers)
11. Ciara O’Sullivan (Mourneabbey)
12. Orlagh Farmer (Midleton)
13. Valerie Mulcahy (Rockbán)
14. Grace Kearney (Bride Rovers)
15. Orla Finn (Kinsale)
And here’s how Dublin will start:
1. Cliodhna O’Connor (Naomh Mearnóg)
2. Rachel Ruddy (Ballyboden St-Enda’s)
3. Sorcha Furlong (St Brigid’s)
4. Leah Caffrey (Na Fianna)
5. Sinéad Finnegan (Fingallians)
6. Sinéad Goldrick (Foxrock Cabinteely)
7. Siobhán McGrath (Thomas Davis)
8. Denise Masterson (Naomh Mearnóg)
9. Molly Lamb (Kilmacud Crokes)
10. Noelle Healy (St Brigid’s)
11. Natalia Hyland (Ballyboden St-Enda’s)
12. Carla Rowe (Clann Mhuire)
13. Lyndsey Davey (Skerries Harps)
14. Sinéad Aherne (St Sylvester’s)
15. Lindsay Peat (Parnell’s)
The Cork subs are:
Jean O’Sullivan, Aisling Barrett, Emma Farmer, Ann Marie Walsh, Nollaig Cleary, Rhona Ní Bhuachalla, Eimear Scally, Norita Kelly, Marie Ambrose, Roisin O’Sullivan, Shauna Kelly, Doireann O’Sullivan, Mairead Corkey, Jessica O’Shea and Maire O’Callaghan.
The Dublin subs are:
Emer Ní Eafa, Lucy Collins, Niamh McEvoy, Siobhan Woods, Olivia Leonard, Sarah McCaffrey, Colleen Barrett, Deirdre Murphy, Martha Byrne, Nicole Owens, Olwen Carey, Emma McDonagh, Niamh Collins, Michelle Davoren, Margaret Mohan.
Cavan’s Maggie Farrelly is the referee for this game. The pre match parade is now under way.
Dublin playing in to Hill 16 in the first-half and Noelle Healy wins an early free.
But it’s a bad shot from Sinead Aherne, struck wide from a very favorable position.
Cork 0-1 Dublin 0-0
2 mins – First score of the game comes from the left boot of Cork’s Valerie Mulcahy after she was fed by Grace Kearney.
Goal chance for Cork as Ciara O’Sullivan’s shot is blocked before Valerie Mulcahy’s follow up effort goes wide.
Cork 0-1 Dublin 0-1
9 mins – Lyndsey Davey draws Dublin level with a strong run down the middle and then she blasts the ball over the bar.
Dublin 0-2 Cork 0-1
10 mins – Dublin edge ahead through a converted free by Sinead Aherne.
Dublin 0-3 Cork 0-1
11 mins – Aherne again, this time from play, as Dublin stretch their lead.
Dublin 1-3 Cork 0-1
13 mins – Huge boost for Dublin as they break through Lindsay Peat and she races clear before finishing to the net with a low left-foot shot.
Dublin 1-4 Cork 0-1
18 mins – Dublin cut Cork open again with a direct delivery. Looked like a goal was on but Sinead Goldrick elected to boot a high shot between the posts.
Dublin 1-5 Cork 0-2
20 mins – Superb point by Sinead Aherne from the right wing stretches Dublin’s lead further but Cork bounce back as they end a long scoring drought through wing-back Geraldine O’Flynn.
Dublin 1-5 Cork 0-3
22 mins – Better again from Cork as Valerie Mulcahy clips over a point.
Dublin 1-6 Cork 0-3
24 mins – Lyndsey Davey strikes a point for Dublin with the ball deflecting off the crossbar and upright before going over.
Dublin 1-7 Cork 0-3
26 mins – Carla Rowe notches another point for Dublin and they’re now seven clear approaching half-time.
Cork’s wides total creeping ever higher, they’ve had ten shots go past the posts in the first half.
Dublin 1-7 Cork 0-5
32 mins – First blood in the second-half for Cork as Mulcahy slots over a free.
Chances for Cork to make further progress but Geraldine O’Flynn and Brid Stack both strike wides.
Dublin 2-9 Cork 0-5
35 mins – Is that it? Lindsay Peat gets through to smash home Dublin’s second goal and then both Noelle Healy and Lyndsey Davey point.
Dublin 2-9 Cork 0-6
41 mins – Mulcahy slots a free for Cork as she tries to bring them back into it.
Dublin 2-10 Cork 0-6
43 mins – Noelle Healy bags another point, Dublin ten clear.
Dublin 2-10 Cork 1-6
45 mins – Cork badly needed that boost. Clever hand pass by Valerie Mulcahy released Ní Bhuachalla and she blasted home a goal.
Dublin 2-10 Cork 1-7
46 mins – Cork cut the deficit further as Orla Finn clips over a point off her left.
Dublin 2-10 Cork 1-8
47 mins – Cork comeback on? Mulcahy with a brilliant point off her right.
Dublin 2-11 Cork 1-8
48 mins – Carla Rowe with a superb point for Dublin to ease the pressure.
Goal chance for Cork but Mulcahy’s shot is blocked by Dublin’s Cliodhna O’Connor.
Dublin 2-11 Cork 2-11
54 mins – What a comeback by Cork as Eimear Scally fires to the net after a pass from Ciara O’Sullivan.
them Brits are always late
ha ha.
excellent Cornelius. true that.
if he wins it on the last shot though he’ll be as Irish as myself.
Unlike us punctual Irish!!!!
According to Skysports he’s now Irish again :)
Of course he’s Irish, Jason, Europe is losing!!!!
He was watching the All-Ireland Hurling Final!!!!
Surely in the scenario described he would have been an hour early with Chicago being an hour behind the eastern coast. Unless the earth spins in the opposite direction stateside….
If its 10am in Chicago it’s 11am on the east coast….
Mr crow u beat me to it! silly brits with their tardiness ;)
Cornellius and maverick. You are ignorant gits.
Are all Rorys slow today? Twas a joke. Declan summed it up by what i meant.
sense of humor by pass for Rory Conway !!
@Alan you must be from Leitrim I’m guessing and you support Liverpool and you have a dislike for snobby c@@nts who play golf… All combining to show why you hate 3 champions ie Kilkenny, Man United and McIlroy
lol, probably. would rather go and watch shels than man utd and spend friday night under lights on the driving range with a bunch of other people who kit themselves out from car boot sales and who couldnt hit a wall with a tractor
Man United.. Champions? I think you must have time warped in from 1999??
You don’t know Leitrim people, we laugh at your silly comments!!!!
for some unknown reason some sports people really annoy me. i cant figure out why. mcilory seems a real tosser. i couldnt care less what he does or doesnt achieve. same with alex feguson, wayne rooney, brian cody and others
If Europe wins he’s British , if they lose he’s Irish . Wait till you see.
“eastern seaboard time”? Lads, it’s called Eastern Standard Time in winter and Eastern Daylight Time in the summer…..
Ten minutes is the the time most golfers turn up for their tee time, no big deal.